Former baseball star Curt Schilling was interviewed this morning on the Dennis & Callahan sports radio show on WEEI in Boston in the first such appearance since the demise of 38 Studios, the developer he founded. Boston.com quotes some of the conversation where Schilling spoke of investing all of his personal assets into the company while never a penny back out. He also says his former employees "have every right to be upset" as they were "blindsided" by the studio's closure after he promised a month or two of advance warning, admitting he "bombed on that one in epic fashion." He also describes the last ditch effort to save the company that failed because Rhode Island refused to go along with the plan, and addresses accusations that his acceptance of tax credits and loan guarantees from the state were hypocritical in light of his outspoken conservative viewpoints: "I don't know how that correlates to this. I donít have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses." Thanks JJ.

Prez wrote on Jun 23, 2012, 06:21:I view voting like jury duty - a required civic duty that I'd really rather not do, but I always will do it because it's my civic duty.

The trouble with this is...sadly, both are/have been far too easy to rig. I used to feel this way...until you become familiar with the how things actually go down once you walk away from the booth/bench.

The problem we face, is we're dumb as a state. We don't learn from our mistakes, we keep hoping the next guy in the same party will fix things. When that doesn't happen the knee-jerk is felt all the way down to Jersey, and the process begins again, just with the other party. We even re-elect convicted felons,and give them conservative talk radio shows! ...sigh

To make problems worse, loyal sports fans were taken in by this whole thing, the hype surrounding their(38 Studios) impending move to RI. I saw this part coming, I will admit, I have always felt Curt was an overpaid hack when he wore the uniform, and nothing has changed beyond his arrogance level skyrocketing. He's a hypocrite for taking that back room deal from our previous schmuck Governor, and he's an outright bullshit artist for trying to blame the current dumb dumb. All Chaffee did was actually BE our representative, and voice concerns we all had after so long with no returns. Every time the state asked to see how things were going...they got the usual dance/song/screwball pitch from 38 Studios to not worry, things were great even though Amalur sold a .33% market share, needing at least 1% or 3 million copies...even to survive!

Let's do some math...75 million from the state easy cash, plus the supposed 50 million he says he lost....while I know this isn't all of it, that's around 125 million dollars for one studio to make one game?

Are you fucking serious Curt?

Either you are the worst "Conservative" on the planet, or you are an outright lying thief. I suspect we will find under testimony, and I'm sure he will have to...that he's full of shit...and ran his company into the ground, not unlike some of his moments in Boston.